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Badges and trophies

Two different things live side by side in the Engagement Hub. Badges mark milestones you reach as you build your collection and use the app. The Trophy Room shows your actual items: your rarest and most valuable pieces.

A grid of badges in the Engagement Hub, some earned and some still lockedA grid of badges in the Engagement Hub, some earned and some still locked

How you earn badges​

Badges unlock on their own. Whenever you do something that could earn one (adding an item, completing a sale, finishing a history quiz, picking up a follower, marking a grail), the app re-checks every badge against your current state and awards any you now qualify for. A toast and a notification tell you when one lands.

The catalogue covers collection milestones, set completion, marketplace and seller-trust milestones, social milestones and gaming-history quizzes. On top of that there are badges tied to individual gaming-history timelines. You unlock those by owning items on that platform, and more appear as more of that content is published.

Locked badges are shown alongside earned ones, greyed out, with a hint of what each takes.

What a badge pays​

Unlocking a badge adds extra AI photo identifications to your monthly allowance — the ones RTC Bot uses when it identifies an item from a photo. Catalogue badges are worth between 3 and 15, scaled to how much collecting they represent. The per-timeline history badges are worth 2 each, and a broad shelf can unlock several at once.

Three limits apply, shared with quests, community goals and streaks:

  • At most 30 extra identifications can be earned in a calendar month (UTC), across all sources. Anything over the cap isn't paid that month.
  • At most 30 unused ones can be held at any moment.
  • Credits last to the end of the month after the one you earned them in.

Badges earned before 1 August 2026, when the reward economy started, aren't paid retrospectively. You keep the badges themselves.

The Trophy Room​

The Trophy Room holds your items, not your badges. It ranks your owned collection two ways and shows the top ten of each:

  • Rarest: ordered by rarity score, using how many other collectors own the same catalogue item alongside its value and how well known it is.
  • Most valuable: ordered by market value, using the price data for the condition you've recorded.

Each entry carries its rarity label and value, and the room as a whole has a share action.

The Trophy Room showing a collector's rarest and most valuable items, each with its rarity label and valueThe Trophy Room showing a collector's rarest and most valuable items, each with its rarity label and value

Only items linked to a catalogue entry can be scored, so a hand-typed item with no catalogue match won't appear until you link it.

Where they show​

  • In the Engagement Hub, which renders both the full badge grid and your Trophy Room.
  • On your profile, under the Trophies tab. Your badges are visible there to other collectors; the Trophy Room and the RTC Wrapped entry point appear only when you're looking at your own profile.

See Social for more on your profile and its tabs.